Supreme Court Justice David Souter was attacked by thugs as he jogged on a Washington street, authorities said yesterday.

Souter, 64, was set upon at about 9 p.m. Friday by “several young men” who took nothing, but left the jurist with bumps and bruises, sources said.

“He was jogging last night . . . when he was assaulted by more than one person – several young men, and he was taken to Washington Hospital Center by Supreme Court police officers,” said Kathy Arberg, a court spokeswoman.

He was discharged from the hospital yesterday at 1:30 a.m.

“Other than sustaining minor injuries, he’s feeling fine,” Arberg told The Post. She added that the justice is an frequent jogger.

Souter was jogging alone at the time, and lives in the neighborhood near the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill, where the attack happened.

Neither Arberg nor Washington police would provide more details on the assault, except to say that Souter wasn’t robbed.

A spokeswoman for the hospital also would not talk about the incident, citing privacy rules.

Souter is not the first justice to be attacked, or the first to be injured while exercising.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the victim of a purse snatching late Nov. 7, 1996, while walking home to the Watergate apartment complex in Washington.

Also, Justice Stephen Breyer was thrown from his bicycle while exercising in 1993 and suffered minor injuries.

Born in Melrose, Mass., Souter is a Harvard graduate.

A Rhodes scholar, he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1983.

He became judge of the federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in May 1990, and in October of the same year, was appointed an associate justice to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush. With Post Wire Services